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  r68750 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-18 16:47:04 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fix encoding cookie case
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  r68776 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-19 10:17:54 -0600 (Mon, 19 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  move BufferedIOBase into the base class section
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  r68777 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-19 10:18:27 -0600 (Mon, 19 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  add email address
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  r68811 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-20 12:58:27 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fix url
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  r68842 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-20 20:16:26 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Markup fixes
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  r68859 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-22 12:29:28 -0600 (Thu, 22 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Clarify wording.
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diff --git a/Doc/documenting/markup.rst b/Doc/documenting/markup.rst
index 82c75cf..a919468 100644
--- a/Doc/documenting/markup.rst
+++ b/Doc/documenting/markup.rst
@@ -285,7 +285,8 @@
 As said before, Sphinx uses interpreted text roles to insert semantic markup in
 documents.
 
-Variable names are an exception, they should be marked simply with ``*var*``.
+Names of local variables, such as function/method arguments, are an exception,
+they should be marked simply with ``*var*``.
 
 For all other roles, you have to write ``:rolename:`content```.
 
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@
 
 .. describe:: data
 
-   The name of a module-level variable.
+   The name of a module-level variable or constant.
 
 .. describe:: const